Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Work Done During Sleep
Have mentioned here a number of times my involvement in related research. Its covered in many posts.
MIT Just Discovered You Can Get Work Done Even While Asleep, And, of course, there's an app for that.
By Geoffrey James in…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Communications with Drones
More on quantum secure communications.
Quantum communication demonstrated by two hovering drones By Luke Dormehl, January 19, 2021 in DigitalTrends
The groundwork is being laid for the quantum internet — up in the air. Recently…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Alexa Voices Skip CES
But they were there nevertheless. Some interesting thoughts on that.
Google Assistant and Alexa Were Invisible and Everywhere at CES 2021 By Eric Hal Schwartz in Voicebot.ai
Amazon and Google opted to skip joining the list…From Schneier on Security
Sophisticated Watering Hole Attack
Google’s Project Zero has exposed a sophisticated watering-hole attack targeting both Windows and Android:
Some of the exploits were zero-days, meaning they targeted vulnerabilities that at the time were unknown to Google, Microsoft…From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Mastering Blockchain
Just brought to my attention. Inform me if you would like a review related mention.
New O'Reilly Book:
Mastering Blockchain: Unlocking the Power of Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts, and Decentralized Applications 1st Edition…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Melanie Mitchell on if AI can Exist in Medicine Without Human Oversight
Melanie Mitchell, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Portland State University was recently interviewed on the Medscape podcast, Medicine and the Machine in an episode…
From insideHPC
Xilinx Announces Winners of its First Adaptive Computing Challenge Developer Contest
In summer 2020, Xilinx announced the first Xilinx Adaptive Computing Challenge, teaming with Hackster.io to challenge independent developers to create applications using the Vitis Unified Software Platform and Vitis AI on select…
From insideHPC
OVHcloud Teams with IBM and Atempo for Cloud Storage
Roubaix, France – January 19, 2021 – To meet European enterprise and public institution security, sovereignty and resilience needs for the preservation of sensitive data, OVHcloud is collaborating with IBM and Atempo to develop…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Do You Teach Robots to Dance?
When I saw the Boston Dynamics robots dancing, it came to mind quickly ow it had been done. Here Evan does a good job of describing the process.
How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance
Aaron Saunders, Boston Dynamics’…From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey Ecosystem2 .0
Good points from McKinsey. Is this the ideal time for re-drawing the essential ecosystem?
Ecosystem 2.0: Climbing to the next level
September 11, 2020 |
Ecosystem 2.0: Climbing to the next level By Violet Chung, Miklós Dietz…From insideHPC
Active Archive Alliance Names Rich Gadomski and Betsy Doughty Co-Chairpersons of the Board
Boulder, Colo.—January 19, 2021—The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Rich Gadomski, head of tape evangelism at FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc., and Betsy Doughty, vice president of corporate marketing at Spectra…
From BLOG@CACM
Superb Historical Robots
The world's most magnificent historical robots.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Scratching the Programming Itch
Programming is fun for me. It always has been.I’ve always written code to scratch a personal itch. That is to say that I like to write programs that interest me. If I can learn something new or try something different that is…
From insideHPC
10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI
In this insideHPC Guide, "10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI," our friends over at WEKA offer 10 important questions to ask when starting with AI, specifically planning for success beyond the initial stages of a project…
From insideHPC
Argonne’s Rick Stevens named ACM Fellow
Rick Stevens has been named a Fellow of the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM). Stevens is associate laboratory director of the Computing, Environment and Life Sciences directorate at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE)…
From Computational Complexity
The Ethics Board
Back in 2014 I recommended a TCS ethics board mainly to deal with plagiarism and who should get credit for a result. It went the way of most suggestions I make in my blog, a quick road to nowhere. Bill asked "Does any other branch…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Edmund Clarke, 1945–2020
If only model checking could fight the virus Edmund Clarke passed away due to COVID-19 complications. Ed will be missed. He was a winner of the 2007 Turing award for his seminal work on model checking. This was joint with Allen…
From Schneier on Security
Injecting a Backdoor into SolarWinds Orion
Crowdstrike is reporting on a sophisticated piece of malware that was able to inject malware into the SolarWinds build process:
Key Points
SUNSPOT is StellarParticle’s malware used to insert the SUNBURST backdoor into software…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ensemble Methods for Combining Methods
Ensemble methods are not new, they have long been around to use combine multiple kinds of techniques. But we have more methods now. Here a good mostly non technical view of how to combine methods. With straight forward code…
From insideHPC
Women in HPC: Jan. 20 Online Panel Discussion on Data, AI, Bias and Ethics
The Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) Women in HPC Chapter will host the second of a two-part program on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1-2 p.m. ET, on problematic datasets, AI, bias and ethics. The presentation and panel…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Three Ways Visual AI Can Optimize Supply Chain
Visual interaction with data can strongly drive decisions, before and after. Again had not heard it called that specifically, But see the point You can enhance intelligence by providing useful and efficient visualization.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Efficiency via AI
Like all of analytics, AI can be an excellent means to provide leverage via efficiency. Has to be done right and applied to real process. Do something better, faster, cheaper.
AI Efficiency Is How To Make Money In This New…From insideHPC
Webinar: Transform Your Data Center with Our IPU-POD Scale-out Technology
Don't miss Graphcore's upcoming webinar "Transform Your Data Center with Our IPU-POD Scale-out Technology" on January 27, 2021 at 16:00 GMT, 8:00 PT, 11:00 ET. IPU-POD is Graphcore’s unique scale-out solution for high-performance…
From Putting People First
Berlin exhibition features Experientia work
The exhibition, curated by ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, presents exemplary built projects and outstanding conceptual models by architects and planners from all over the world
From The Eponymous Pickle
How AI Will Change Marketing
The point is made that predictive, forecasting and other forward looking capabilities and alerting will be the key to improving marketing. Those who know more about the future can leverage it.
How artificial intelligence will…From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Language AI
Improving, heating up, getting more useful. But I still think there are considerable problems with not only interpreting/delivering language, but also managing multiple element conversations that refer to particular and changing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Power of Work Ecosystems
Much experience in this space. Though many companies will say they have a well designed ecosystem and processes, it is often not the case, especially as such systems interact with data, goals, resources, risks and design.The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Siri and Wolfram Alpha
I had to use Siri recently, and was reminded that she is also connected to the Wolfram Alpha Knowledge base. Here are some general examples of that. Works well in particular for science constants and algorithms. Need to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Skills Update
From the Amazon Ops site, gives some indication of what they are heading towards regards skills development. A many page list of examples follows at the link. With extensive writeups of the skills
Alexa Skills Kit FeatureOn…From The Eponymous Pickle
Discussing Differential Privacy
Thoughts on a topic I had not heard of until recently, as usual is its in the implications of the measure.
"..As privacy violations have become rampant, and calls for better measures to protect sensitive, personally identifiable…